Hello there guys ice god here with my very first fanfic…and before you even ask yeah this is mostly about Carmine will have some romance involved and even some knuckle bumping bromance LOL. Anyway to give you a bit of hint of what im doing Carmine is going to be bigger than many of the people in the mass effect univers because lets face it when you compare the two universes. For some reason Shepherd and the rest of the gang for some reason are so damn short when compared to the character modles of the gears but I chalk that up to the fact that everything carmine fought on sera would probably rape the krogan and other aliens in that universe, berserkers included. There will be no romance between carmine or female shepard however they will develop a sort of brother sister relationship…which would be kind of interesting to me anyway. I am looking forward to any feedback or opinions you all have and would like to know who you would like to see paired with carmine so long as it aint shepard. Also before you ask yes this fanfic was actually inspired by another one like it but apparently it either stopped or was cut short idk and don't really care. Either way I hope you like it and please enjoy. PS I may add in other gears be sure to let me know which ones you wanna see from the Delta team LOL

Chapter 1: picking up the pieces

Opening up his eyes carmine looked around to see the remains of the burning helicopter laying ruins near him. Standing on his feet he checked himself over to see if there was any damage, none to be found with the exception of a few burns and scuff marks on his armor. Easily fixable, the seasoned Gear shook off the headache he felt from the impact landing he just endured and walked over to pick up his helmet. Dusting it off he noticed that the tower was firing off its massive rays; he wasn't around to hear what Marcus' father had said about the machine and he was only told it was highly important. He had provided cover to delta squad no problem…or at least until Myrrah shot him down with the enormous flying locust she was riding.

'God she was a bitch' carmine thought to himself as he looked out to sea and spotted several Ravens inbound to his location, Waving them over he looked around and began to help out any of the gears who happened to survive their unexpected and very flame induced crash landing. He wasn't surprised to see the pilot was dead unfortunate but he had seen plenty of death in the past but took the COG tags anyway to send back to the man's family. He was lucky when he found another gear slowly waking up, Carmine quickly checked him over. Minor burning and one fractured arm…the man was damned lucky he gave him that much.

Loading the injured gear into the raven Carmine hoped in, Carmine was always a big one and even some of his friends mentioned how the man was probably bigger than the thrashball super star Cole. Course in his opinion they were pretty even, only a lot less WOO from him then his thrashball counterpart. As the raven flew from the ground Carmine had finally realized after the adrenaline in his system stopped flowing that it was finally over, he looked over and spotted another raven picking up delta squad. Glad to see they all made it out alive he noticed the dead body of queen Myrrah, seeing her dead body actually brought a smile to his face

'Fuckin bitch' was all carmine thought as they flew away. Carmine looked around and began to think back on his life…looking at his right arm he once again looked at the helmets his brothers adorned on their heads when they had died. Carmine wasn't normally the sentimental type but when he had learned that his brothers died in the line of duty. The term bloodlust became an understatement for him. During his travels he was even more ruthless to the locust than ever before, even pinning some down and chocking the life out of them. He knew it would never bring his two little brothers back but for a time anyway it did help him sleep a little better at nights. Always wondering if his brothers were watching him from up above, keeping watch on his back…after finding out they had died Clay made it a point to become even stronger and tougher so he wouldn't let his brothers memory be in vain and to make sure his mother still had some sons to care about when it was all over.

As the raven touched down back at azure Clay walked amongst his fellow gears, who at this point were now jumping up and down and celebrating like giddy school girls at finally defeating queen Myrrah and her locust hoard and they even managed to wipe out the Lambent or Glowies as clay referred to them. Walking out into the clearing he found Delta squad along with Dizzy wallin who he was told held out on his own for a long time against waves of locust on his own. Carmine was very impressed and dubbed Dizzy a living badass in his books, of course that book had very few names on it. And for once in all his life as a gear Carmine took off his helmet no longer worried about sniper shots or incoming fire, it was nice to feel the sun on his skin.

He felt bad about Marcus and he was even sadder about Dom…from what Sam told him Dom died sacrificing his life to save Marcus and the others. Carmine shook his head and sighed, he liked Dom and respected the man as a fellow gear but Clay knew he was probably happy now to be reunited with his wife. However even Clay had to worry about Marcus, Anya gave him all the horrible details about Marcus' Father Adam Fenix. He didn't exactly understand why the man did what he did but he just brought about peace for the entire Planet of Sera so he wasn't about to complain. As far as Clay was concerned the man was a hero,

"Think he'll be okay?" Clay asked Baird.

"I don't know man…sigh I really don't know, but…Marcus is tough and hell with Anya watching his back I'm sure he'll be back to his old order barking self soon enough." Clay nodded

"Now what do we do? We've been fighting this damn war so long I think I've actually forgotten how to NOT hold a gun." Baird chuckled and agreed.

Cole was still talking to a few gears that still saw Cole as their Thrashball superstar who just helped take down the locust queen.

"I'm gonna go check on some of the equipment the doc left behind and see if I can salvage anything." Clay gave him a hard look "What? Hey come on as a fellow scientist and technical genius I think I wanna honor the good ol professor in my own way….by learning how all his toys worked." Clay shook his head and figured he'd tag along for the ride since he had nothing better to do.

As they entered the tower the machine that was giving off those strange beams Clay gave off a quick whistle. Whoever Adam Fenix might have been, the man knew how to make machines…Clay had never seen anything like this before not that he could understand any of it at all. Baird on the Other hand looked like he was in candy land looking at all the machinery and even began talking to himself about this and that. The man sure loved technical stuff, Clay preferred to just point and shoot.

"Hey Carmine give me a hand here would ya…I wanna check out some of this tech the professor was working on but it's umm."

"What?" Baird had was actually becoming increasingly embarrassed as he didn't seem to want to mutter the next part of his sentence.

"I….I need you…sigh I need to you lift this, I can't do it." This almost caused clay to roll over and laugh but he went with his better judgment and didn't. Walking over to what look like a giant box he proceeded to lift the metal object and move it. Baird went to work on looking over papers and discs as well as other things.

"Baird what is all this stuff?" Clay asked.

"I don't know but looks like Marcus' dad was looking at other options to the locust and lambent problem."

"Like what?" Baird almost didn't hear the question as he was too into whatever he was reading.

"Seems the professor actually wanted to make a portal." Now clay was officially confused, "A portal? A portal to where?"

"How should I know man I just started reading this stuff like oh I don't know 3 minutes ago….sigh muscle heads can never understand genius." Clay shook his head and decided to look around. Baird was too engulfed in his new findings and toys to pay attention to what clay was looking at.

Clay noticed a strange machine that looked like a pad to stand on, curiously he stood on the pad and looked around, 'what the heck was this supposed to do? Kinda looks like a way of communication maybe. Fuck I should studied more tech stuff back in the academy.' Clay thought to himself. Baird on the other hand began finding more play things to deal with as he read some notes Adam Fenix had left behind

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Baird's POV

"Alternate dimensions? Portals to other Realms?" Baird shook his head trying to understand all this, "Come on professor you couldn't have possibly thought these would work did you?...but I guess I can see how some of these theories work, course then again everything always sounds so easy in theory." Baird kept talking to himself when he noticed an component mentioned in the notes. Looking around he found the button in question.

"Let's see…quantum physics…atom acceleration. Professor you were one smart S.O.B." Baird deciding to see what would happen pressed the button as the lights flickered on he forgot the electricity still emitting from the particle generator. As one of the bolts hit the machine it fried many of the components however gave the machine enough power to activate. Baird looked around as the wiring came to life and the electricity flowed down several lines of cord and tubes until Baird realized exactly where they were headed.

"CARMINE LOOK OUT!"

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Carmines POV

Clay was in awe at many of the machines and tech that was scattered around the room. He brought his weapons with him much to Baird's disapproval, but if there were any remaining grubs Clay wanted to be ready to kill them and fast. The pad he was standing on was the most curious of the entire tech in the building. Large enough for a single person to step onto yet sturdy enough to hold someone as big as him with the added weight of his guns and ammo on it without crushing underneath him. He was actually glad it didn't break because he didn't exactly wanna hear Baird bitch about how he single handedly broke some very important tech. Carmine looked around more until he heard what sounded like a small explosion and turned his head just in time to hear Baird scream his name. Before he could move however the giant pad suddenly lit up and his body became extremely heavy, he couldn't move despite how much he struggled.

"Baird what's going on?...I can't move" Baird rushed over to try and pull carmine off the pad only to get repelled back by a strange barrier.

"Carmine no!" Carmine was virtually scared and he was hardly ever scared he felt like his body was on fire as he felt like he was being pulled apart. He let out a pain full scream and in a burst of light vanished right in front of Baird.

"Carmine! Carmine!" Baird quickly returned to the console and began pressing buttons to see if anything might help get carmine back but nothing was happening the entire systems were fried. Baird hung his head in defeat and punched the desk.

"Damn it." Was all he said knowing full well he just screwed up big time, and it cost him losing yet another carmine brother, he did not like how he let another carmine die and didn't do anything to stop it. "Fuck….no I'm not gonna let this stand, don't worry carmine Ill figure out a way to get you back here."

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Alright end of chapter 1…honestly I don't know how big this thing will be because MS word differs from that of anyway please let me know what you think and if I should continue I actually kinda like where things are going with this and have big ideas involved with this story. Any and all reviews are welcome.